Presents from Santa/stocking stuffers
when do you put them under the tree?

Stupid question, since I didn't have this when I was a kid, but when do you put the presents from Santa in the stockings or under the tree?

I've wrapped all mine, was going to put them in tonight. But Santa comes on Christmas eve right? So how does that work? Or am I thinking about this too much? I doubt DS1 will care when they're there, as long as they are!

we always had the stockings at the end of the bed. Mum made them up and had a big glass of water before she went to bed and then she would put the stockings on our beds when she got up to pee. DS is one son doesn't care much but I still do a stocking for anyone staying at our house on christmas eve.

Under the tree is for pressies to other people in the family, and to each other.

Santa stuff appears on Christmas eve after the kids are asleep - they choose a place to leave their stocking in the lounge room, near the Christmas tree, where the drink and biscuits are left for Santa.I tend to keep 3 of the material shopping bags, in different colours, and they hold the stocking stuff and are hidden in my room. That way, once the girls are asleep, I can just transfer directly from one bag to the stocking.

We only wrap presents from mum & dad & eachother, they go under the tree on Xmas Eve when I do the wrapping (after the kids are in bed). The presents from Santa (which are the majority) do not get wrapped, they are placed in pillowcases & set in front of the kids' doors during the night so they wake up to them on Xmas morning.

One each from Santa under the tree and then little things in a small stocking All of this is put under the tree/ in stocking on christmas Eve keeps santa alive... oh and I use different wrapping paper that the kids dont see

Santa sack or stockings get filled with wrapped presents, which I had left near the tree, but DH had near his bed. Any pressies that don't fit in a sack go under the tree (and appear on xmas eve, after kids in bed), and pressies from and to siblings/parents etc go under the tree, but earlier than xmas eve.

In spite of being in an almost constant state of motion while looking after the kids and trying to keep things together at home, it can seem as though parents have managed to get nothing on the to-do list done by the end of the day.

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